http://wcsj2007.internetguruhosting.net/program/session/biasing-scientific-information/ Sessions, workshops and sponsored events from the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists, Melbourne Australia 17-19 April 2007 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://wcsj2007.internetguruhosting.net/program/session/biasing-scientific-information/#comment-10 JIA Hepeng Wed, 16 May 2007 23:48:02 +0000 http://wcsj2007.internetguruhosting.net/program/session/biasing-scientific-information/#comment-10 As a speaker of the session, I highly appreciate the theme and people's interest in it. But personally, I think some information has not been stressed while others get expanded. I did say propaganda is a barrier to Chinese science journalism, but I wanted to disucss the theme futhur: Why, despite seemingly great support from the government to science journalism, it is still suffering a great regression. I think it is propaganda, together with the institutions set for this purpose, that have resulted in this situation. With a propaganda purpose, 1. most information flow is always single-way, lacking participation from readers; 2. a lot of information is always focused for the science community; 3. Always good news which has led some ads-style science news for commercial interests; 4. Science PIO only favours official news outlets which, without a strong market competition, are less likely to think for the public taste. Although my presentation is focused on situation in China, I think this could be inspiring to other situations where science communication is done simply to boast scientific community and achievements. As a speaker of the session, I highly appreciate the theme and people’s interest in it. But personally, I think some information has not been stressed while others get expanded. I did say propaganda is a barrier to Chinese science journalism, but I wanted to disucss the theme futhur: Why, despite seemingly great support from the government to science journalism, it is still suffering a great regression. I think it is propaganda, together with the institutions set for this purpose, that have resulted in this situation. With a propaganda purpose, 1. most information flow is always single-way, lacking participation from readers; 2. a lot of information is always focused for the science community; 3. Always good news which has led some ads-style science news for commercial interests; 4. Science PIO only favours official news outlets which, without a strong market competition, are less likely to think for the public taste.
Although my presentation is focused on situation in China, I think this could be inspiring to other situations where science communication is done simply to boast scientific community and achievements.

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